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_ ERINUS Lychnidea. 
Lychnis flowered Erinus. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMLA. 
Nat. ord. ScROoPHULARINE. Sect: JZ. Stamina 4 antherifera. Brown 
whepeore ylerte p79 dy ASG or Yin fy 
~ ERINUS. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla tubulosa limbo 5-partito sub- 
aquali, lobis cordatis. Capsula ovata. Folia pleraque alterna; flores ax- 
illares aut 1-bracteati, spicati, teriminales. Juss. gen. 100. - 
E. Lychnidea, foliis lanceolatis serratis, corollx tubo pubescente, limbi la- 
ciniis semibifidis. aie ? 
E. capensis. Linn. mant. 252. ; 
‘E. Lychnidea. Linn. suppl. 287. Willd. sp. plant. 3.333. Thunb, prod. 
102. Pers. syn. 2. 147. ; 
~ Caulis erectus, teres, pubescens, bipedalis. Folia alterna (inferioribus op- 
positis), sessilia, linearia, dentata, remota, pubescentia. Spica terminalis, 
oblonga, imbricata Bracteis latioribus, ovato-lanceolatis, dentatis. Calyx 
sessilis, longitudine bractearum, quinquedentatus, bipartitus, erectus, obtu- 
sus, inferne latior. Corolla flava, odoratissima. 'Tubus jiliformis, calyce 
triplo longior.. Limbus 5-partitus ; lobis semibifidis, obovatis, equalibus. 
Stamina didyma. Antherz 2 in ore tubi; 2 infra faucem. Germen supe- 
rum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine tubi. Linn. mant. 252. 
- For the means of publishing this rare plant, which we 
believe is figured now for the first time, we are obliged to 
Richard Leigh, Esq. of Bexley. Gi 34 ii 
It was originally described by Linnzeus, in his Mantissa, 
with the name of E. capensis, and a figure of Burmann was 
cited, which is now known to represent Ertnus fragrans ; 
an error which Linnzeus afterwards detected, but which is 
continued in Persoon’s Synopsis, although avoided by pre- 
vious writers. The appellation of LycunipEa was given to 
the plant by the younger Linnzeus, in the Supplementum Plan- 
tarum; we suppose, from the belief that it was one of the 
species of LycunipEa represented by Burmann. But, if we 
are right in our conjecture, the name was unfortunately ap- 
plied, since neither of the species of Lycunipra belonging to 
Ertnus, which are described by Burmann, are referable to 
the present plant; one kind being a synonym of EK. africa- 
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